The Portland daily press., 1887-07-23
PERSONAL.

Mrs. James ID. Fessenden is stopping at
the West End Hotel, Bar Harbor.
Major H. A. Shorey, editor of the Bridgton
News, was in the city yesterday.
State Treasurer Burleigh was in the city
yesterday.
DR.. A. G. Young of Augusta, Secretary of
the State Board of Health, was in the city
yesterday.
Ex-Mayor j. w. Deering has engaged r.
II. Phippe's cottage at Otd'Grchard for the
first three weeks in August.
Rev. j. d. Pickles of Lynn, President
Capen and Professors Harmon and Brown,
of Tufts College, Boston, with their fami-
lies, are spending their vacation on the
Maine coast
Ex-Councilman j. K. Sturgis of Holden,
Mo-, formerly of Portland, is spending a
few days at his old home. Mr.. SturgiS was
out West during the recent heated spell, but
seems to fatten on weather where the mer-
curry runs to 1902.
The Rev. Chas II. Mann of New York,
editor of the New Church Messenger" and
pastor of tine New Jerusalem Society of Or
ange, N. j., is in the city, and will preach at
street, Sunday morning.
Eben d. Jordan, of the firm of Jordan,
Marsh q Co. of Boston, who is visiting in
Topsham, is in Brunswick every day. Tues
day he went to Mere Point fishing. He
owns farm in South Auburn. This season
he will cut 70 tons of hay. He has twenty
head of cattle on the farm.
Alvah Benjamin, Cleveland; F. T. Dow,
E. E. Richards, Fl. jenkins, H. E. Paul, Bos-
ton; E. c. Weeks and wife, Brooklyn; Allan
McNab, G. A. Chase and wife, II. T. Camaff,
Toronto, Ont; d. H. Buell., G. S. Page New
York; E. A. Reed, Portage du Fort, Ont. !:
were among the arrivals at the United States
Hotel yesterday
Morrill, Goddard, assistant city editor of
the New York World, has been sent to Bos-
ton as New England correspondent of the
World. He makes his headquarters in the
Boston Globe Office where he has access to
all the news of that paper. Mr.. Goddard
has general charge and supervision of all the
corr espondents in New England and is re-
sponsible for all the news in this section.
He has rowing Commission to tra,e ell over
the1six New England States and look after
news for the World.
Mr.. Clarence Pullen delivered his illustrat-
ed lecture ON 1.-THE City of Mexico" at the
Casino, Clifton Heights on last Saturday eve
ming, before an audience composed of menu
bers of the Clifton Heights Casino Club and
its friends, who listened with delight to the
fine description of ''The great tropical city
above the clouds in the sun-lit valley of Mex
ico." By invitation. Mr.. Pullen will lecture
during the summer at Newport, Bar Harbor
and several other New England seaside and
mountain resorts.
Ezra Whitney, widely known as a manu-
facturer of agricultural implements, and the
popular proprietor and editor for many years
of the Maryland Farmer, died July 18th at
his home in Baltimore. Though born in
Massachusetts, he was educated at Winth-
rop, Me-, and it has been his custom for sew
eral years past to visit Maine each fall, usu-
ally coming here so as to be present at our
great fairs. Last season he visited both the
New England at Bangor, and the Maine
State at Lewiston. besides going to Bar Har-
Dor and other resorts in the State and
spending much time in Winthrop and Vi
cnity